Analytics for Recovery and Reuse of Solid Wastes from Refineries

Barbara Apicella, Carmela Russo and Osvalda Senneca
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Barbara Apicella: Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie per l’Energia e la Mobilità Sostenibili, STEMS-CNR, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy
Carmela Russo: Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie per l’Energia e la Mobilità Sostenibili, STEMS-CNR, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy
Osvalda Senneca: Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie per l’Energia e la Mobilità Sostenibili, STEMS-CNR, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 11, 1-28

Abstract: Heavy fractions of petroleum have for long time been bypassed in favour of lighter fractions. Nowadays, in the framework of the “circular economy”, there is a growing interest in residual petroleum heavy fractions. The present work briefly reviews the use and characterization at laboratory scale of some low valuable solid or semi-solid products of the oil refinery industry: asphaltenes (bitumen/asphalt), pet-coke and pitch for use as fuels. The use of solid and semi-solid refinery residues, in particular, of coke as a coal substitute in thermochemical processes and of pitch and asphaltenes as material precursors, requires careful analysis, and an understanding of their structure at the molecular level is mandatory for the development of processing technology. Techniques for the characterization of typical petroleum heavy fractions such as pitches, asphaltenes and cokes are reviewed. An experimental protocol for investigating at the laboratory scale the thermochemical conversion behavior of solid and semi-solid refinery wastes is proposed.

Keywords: petroleum pitch; asphalt; bitumen; petroleum coke; combustion; analysis; pyrolysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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